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Life and career

Born in Portsmouth in 1936,[5] James Riordan learned to speak Russian during National Service training in the Royal Air Force from 1955 to 1957. In 1960, he graduated in Russian Studies at the University of Birmingham, before qualifying as a teacher at the London Institute of Education.
In 1963, Riordan studied at the Communist higher party school in
Moscow; he was an avowed Communist, and was one of the few English
students at the school.
His autobiography Comrade Jim: The Spy Who Played for Spartak includes an account of his games for Spartak Moscow; some Russian commentators have questioned these claims.[6]
When he returned to England he became lecturer at Bradford University before moving on to the University of Surrey at Guildford
where became head of the Russian Department and was awarded a personal
professorship. In 1980 he was the Olympic attache for the British Olympic Association of the 1980 Moscow Olympics. He held an honorary doctorate of Grenoble University and was President (2003-5) and later Fellow of the European Committee for Sports History.

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Autobiography

Comrade Jim: The Spy Who Played for Spartak, Harper Perennial, 2009. ISBN 0007251157